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[quote=Anonymous]I am a teacher at a different school district and I have been using Zoom.  It is certainly helpful but it hasn't been without its difficulties.

I live in the city of Alexandria where, frankly, our internet options suck.  Verizon doesn't offer Fios here (as in you literally cannot purchase it) so you only can elect DSL if you are on a Verizon plan, and Comcast was even worse when we had that as our internet service.

It was all to no avail, however, because today my internet fluctuated between being fine and the not enough power so that all my students saw was a screen of me frozen in space.  I wasn't even using my school system laptop because I knew my desktop was going to produce a better product.  I received a ton of text messages from students with screen captures and while some of the pics were funny I wasn't really amused.

We are what DCUM would charitably call a UMC family and my husband is really techie. If we're having problems accessing the internet, then I don't know what to say about other families without our advantages.

I'm not trying to rain on your parade.  I am trying to point out that Zoom isn't going to be a miracle product.  We will need to be using a variety of methodologies as we work within our new reality.

Try to be patient with one another.  Try to be supportive of your kids and your kids' teachers.  Try to understand that we all (I hope) want to accomplish the same goal of exemplary teaching and learning.

Working together we can do this.  Working against one another?  We will sink like the Titanic.[/quote]

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